By Tara Kavaler | Arizona Republic
Politics can make for strange bedfellows. In Arizona’s attorney general race, that has come in the form of Jewish candidate Rodney Glassman and Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz, who has aligned himself with an outspoken antisemite.
Glassman, one of the Republican candidates running in the Aug. 2 primary, was endorsed by the six-term congressman who currently is representing the Grand Canyon State’s 4th district.
And on Saturday, Glassman held a fundraiser featuring Gosar at the American Legion post in Prescott.
On the ultra-right-wing social media platform Gab, Gosar has defended Nick Fuentes, whom both the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center described as a white nationalist who espouses anti-Jewish rhetoric. This includes denying the Holocaust occurred — in one video he compares Jews killed at concentration camps to cookies baking in ovens. Fuentes said he was being ironic.
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has subpoenaed Fuentes, which prompted a sympathetic response from Gosar.
